Full title: Wichtige, historische Enthüllungen über die wirkliche Todesart Jesu. Nach einem alten, zu Alexandrien gefundenen Manuscripte von einem Zeitgenossen Jesu aus dem heiligen Orden der Essäer. Aus einer lateinischen Abschrift des Originals überseßt. Sechste Auflage, noch vermehrt mit einem Nachtrag: Zurückweisung der katholischen Angriffe des Joh. Nepomuk Truelle in seiner Schrift: "Aufklärungen über die allein wahre Todesart Jesu Christi ꝛc."

8vo. f. [1] (blank), pp. [iii], iv-viii, 104, f. [1] (blank). Tooled and gilded boards with central medallions showing cross, anchor and chalice, gilded spine and edges, upper spine worn. Floral sticker on front endpaper. Signature on title page. Marginalia. Marks, ink stain and repair on last page. Printer's name from colophon.

The so-called ‘Essene Letter’, an instantly popular work, purporting to contain an eyewitness account of the Crucifixion, has been attributed to the original publisher, Kollmann. This sixth edition contains an afterword commenting on Johann Nepomuk Truelle’s attack on the ‘Letter’, in which he demonstrated that it was based on a novel of 1800. See P. Beskow, Strange tales about Jesus: a survey of unfamiliar gospels. Philadelphia, 1985 (2nd ed.), chapter 7, and n. 52.

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